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blockchain (1)

Radical Markets Proposal for Gitcoin Hackathon

June 7, 2020

I wrote my first ignorant thoughts on Open Source financing here but still gave the Gitcoin hackathon a try because coming up with some more practical sugges...

climate work (7)

Hard Green Tech Company Factory: A Recipe?

November 23, 2019

They rented a warehouse, adopted the slogan “We’re not a think tank, we’re a do tank,” and acquired much of their laboratory equipment for little or nothi...

Some of Saul Griffith's ideas

November 23, 2019

Bret Victor has a great article for engineers interested in climate change. Today I (re)found Saul Griffith and have been equally inspired. I’d like to post ...

Do I need more data to find important climate work?

October 29, 2019

I’ve written about how the data on emissions is hard to find, how the visualisations are too high level, and how the data exploration available should be bet...

Emissions visualisation - A first attempt

October 28, 2019

I think detailed emissions data is important for us to make decisions. Not just the high level graphs usually in government communication but detailed, explo...

Amusing Nuclear Press Releases

October 20, 2019

I didn’t expect to find something funny when researching nuclear energy but I did.

No Platforms!

October 19, 2019

When thinking about what I would like to work on to speed up our good-for-climate-technology I often came to the idea of some sort of platform. What if all o...

What can I do for climate change?

October 14, 2019

I think climate change is the biggest threat to this planet that I can do something about. I expect to live out my life without being heavily impacted by it,...

humour (1)

Communicating in the modern world. Can we stop it please?

September 14, 2020

Every company must have an “About us” or “Who we are” section. And in there they have to put empty words from the HBR. The easiest way to do this is list val...

personal (1)

Is what I do anything at all?

October 10, 2019

Am I irrelevant to what I value? I believe so.

software (5)

Running ROS in LXD containers

August 6, 2020

I’d been following ROS tutorials and wanted to try out moveit but found it wasn’t ready for ros-noetic yet. I found linux containers as a convinient way to r...

Quick setup for Neovim and C++

July 22, 2020

For some reason, setting up Neovim and adding C++ support took me ages, so I decided to write it down.

Radical Markets Proposal for Gitcoin Hackathon

June 7, 2020

I wrote my first ignorant thoughts on Open Source financing here but still gave the Gitcoin hackathon a try because coming up with some more practical sugges...

Unmagical solutions to open source's finanical issues

June 2, 2020

Gitcoin have a hackathon challenge to “Propose a radical markets idea to be used on gitcoin” that will increase the financial flow and contributions in open ...

On Time and Lightning Fast

February 23, 2020

I think we should be able to estimate how long it will take us to build something and to build it quickly. Patrick Collison has a list of examples showing wh...

startups (6)

Communicating in the modern world. Can we stop it please?

September 14, 2020

Every company must have an “About us” or “Who we are” section. And in there they have to put empty words from the HBR. The easiest way to do this is list val...

A Book Bunch for Thinking Clearly and Boldly About Broken Systems

May 1, 2020

Why is our society unable to solve problems which appear to have easy solutions? Because of our systems. How can you think about these systems and their insa...

SaaS: Software as a Sports team

December 15, 2019

“That power and emotion is our game. Because our identity is intensity. That comes back in every drill.” source

Hard Green Tech Company Factory: A Recipe?

November 23, 2019

They rented a warehouse, adopted the slogan “We’re not a think tank, we’re a do tank,” and acquired much of their laboratory equipment for little or nothi...

Building Difficult Technology

November 7, 2019

When thinking about what I want to work on, I am most inspired by deep tech/hard tech/high tech/whatever-you-call-it tech. I love the ambition of it. I woul...

What can Europe do?

October 13, 2019

Has Europe built its villa and retired?

sustainability (2)

A (soon to be) Great Open Source Solar Investing Platform

June 9, 2020

I complained before that sustainable finance is too much hard work. I think Yale may be building something that could fix it.

Why make green investing hard work?

February 16, 2020

I’d like to invest some of my money into producing more green energy while also having the possibility of earning some interest for retired me.

systems (2)

Radical Markets Proposal for Gitcoin Hackathon

June 7, 2020

I wrote my first ignorant thoughts on Open Source financing here but still gave the Gitcoin hackathon a try because coming up with some more practical sugges...

A Book Bunch for Thinking Clearly and Boldly About Broken Systems

May 1, 2020

Why is our society unable to solve problems which appear to have easy solutions? Because of our systems. How can you think about these systems and their insa...